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From the Cloud to Virtualization, Software As a Service to Web Services, ideas seem to be everywhere all the time. Somewhere, somehow, someone needs to separate the wheat from the chaff. We’ve asked Matt Heusser to provide his insight and commentary on the prevailing issues for IT staff today.

December 7, 2016 - I did something stupid a couple of days ago, I got into an argument on twitter. Someone made a post claiming monetary incentives always harm performance. The word always being used there made my head spin, and I just couldn’t resist. I have been reading a book called Why We Do What We Do by...... READ MORE

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Smarter and smarter things are happening in places that are not within the confines of IT data centers or clouds. There’s action out at the “edge.” The edge can be a manufacturing floor, smart city, smart building, energy grid, oil rig, windfarm, dairy farm, planes, trains or automobiles. Living on …READ MORE

Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 list of the most influential people in UK IT provides a fascinating insight into the big issues affecting the tech community, as we watch how the leaders who make the list change year by year.

Twenty of last year’s top 50 dropped out of the list in 2016 – the fact…READ MORE

I did something stupid a couple of days ago, I got into an argument on twitter. Someone made a post claiming monetary incentives always harm performance. The word always being used there made my head spin, and I just couldn’t resist.

I have been reading a book called Why We Do What We Do by Edwar…READ MORE

Chief data officers are gaining organizational clout, according to a new report from Gartner. Researchers at the consultancy found that companies are establishing a data office, what they refer to as “the office of the CDO,” complete with staffing, budget and specific responsibilities.

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog ‘penned’ by Olivier Bonsignour in his role as executive vice president of product development at Cast — – the company is a software measurement and analysis solution provider focusing on source code parsing, debugging, impact…READ MORE

The future of regulatory compliance is under scrutiny as President-elect Donald Trump’s administration continues the transition process. Also in recent GRC news: Hackers demanded ransom after disabling San Francisco’s transportation system, ‘dronejacking’ could become the next security issue and Fac…READ MORE

The SQL Server Query Store which was introduced in Azure about a year ago or so, and came to the on-premises version of SQL Server in SQL Server 2016. This is a fantastic tool which can help you find performance problems. However when looking at the query store it may not be showing you the data tha…READ MORE

Registration is open for the PowerShell Summit (USA) and PowerShell Conference (Europe). Now is an excellent time to decide which one you’re going to attend next year. If you’re serious about PowerSHell you should be at one of these events.

I was kind of afraid Gene Kim, the man behind the DevOps movement and a very in-demand speaker and consultant, would be offended when I asked him about the idea of BizDevOps, aka DevOps 2.0. But to my very great surprise (and honestly, relief), he agreed with the notion completely during a recent co…READ MORE

The U.S. Senate passed the 21st Century Cures Act on Dec. 6, legislation that has some important implications for health IT including providing funding to initiatives started by President Barack Obama in which health IT plays a major role, interoperability and data blocking, and FDA approval of medi…READ MORE